Saturday Mornings at the Huntington
October 2, 2010 - 9:30am - 12:00pm
Saturday Mornings at the Huntington
COLLOQUIUM V I:
“REGIONAL ORGANIZATIONS PAST AND PRESENT:
WILL THEY WORK IN THE FUTURE?”
Presented by the Los Angeles Region Planning History Group
in cooperation with the Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West
Huntington Library, Friends Hall
Saturday, October 2, 2010
Coffee and Reception: 9:30 a.m.
Colloquium: 10:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
Event is $10.00; Free Parking and Day Pass to the Huntington
**RSVP by Wednesday, September 29th
to Alice Lepis at alepis@prodigy.net (preferred); also at 818.769.4179**
The Metropolitan Water Districtbrought Southern California abundant and cheap water; the Los Angeles and Long Beach Ports gave the Los Angeles region the opportunity to be a global player; the Los Angeles World Airport brought the people of the world here; the Alameda Corridor gave us a world class goods rail link and, overnight, Metrolink gave us a regional passenger transit system. All of these regional systems have been hugely successful. Now the issues of water, goods movement, aviation and regional transit face new and daunting challenges. What are these new challenges? Will the organizations responsible for past regional successes be able to respond to these critical new challenges? Daniel Mazmanian, Director of the Bedrosian Center on Governance, USC, will moderate a distinguished panel of policy makers and academicians regarding regional organizations and agencies.
· Timothy Brick, Chairman of MWD and the initiator of the MWD Blue Ribbon Committee.
· Professor Steven Erie, University of California San Diego, author of Beyond Chinatown and several other books on the subject.
· James Hankla, Past Chairman of the Port of Long Beach and Executive Director of the Alameda Corridor Transportation Authority
· Mark Pisano, Senior Fellow, USC involved in the formation of the Alameda Corridor Transportation Authority, Metrolink and the Regional Airport Authority
